LATAM Cargo Brazil has started the construction of its perishable hub: a new cool facility at Guarulhos–Governador André Franco Montoro International Airport or simply GRU, which is the primary international airport serving Sao Paulo. The new facility is meant to offer a more reliable connection service and improved perishable product offering for the increasing perishable volumes being exported from Latin America to the world. The new facility, when completed, will allow LATAM Cargo to handle 33 percent more perishable cargo compared to what they are now offering at the GRU hub.
The perishable hub has an area of 17,620 sqft, half of which will be meant for coolers. The facility’s cooler area has two divisions: one division with an area spread across 5,242 sqft is set at 0 - 2.2ºC, and the second division with an area spread across 3,638 sqft is set at 2.2 – 12.7ºC for storage and re-palletizing purposes.
Interestingly, the system at the facility allows for increasing the temperature in any of its coolers up to 25ºC in case there is a specific perishable that require a different temperature setting. The new facility and the cold storages will be able to fulfil all needs of the main perishable products exported by the region which include salmon, asparagus, mango, cherries, berries and flowers.
